Does anyone still use Multics??

[Green Eric Lee]

In message <33004 at think.UUCP>, barmar at think.COM (Barry Margolin) says:
>In article <438 at babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n at babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>>Multics PL/I wasn't full PL/I, either IBM or ANSI.  Effectively, Multics
>>defined the compileable subset of PL/I.  This is responsible for the
>>success (such as it is) of PL/I outside IBM.
>
>The language Multics was originally implemented in was a PL/I subset
>(called EPL), but a full ANSI PL/I compiler was later written, around
>1968 or 1969.  It was revised extensively (to take advantage of new
>hardware features) in 1972.

Hmm... Last time I used Multics and PL/1 was maybe '82 or so, but I do
seem to recall that Multics PL/1 still was a "subset" of the full ANSI
standard at that time (and I don't suspect they've made much change
since). Digging out my old Multics PL/1 manual doesn't give much
enlightenment, though. Page 1, section 1, INTRODUCTION: "Multics PL/1
is closely related to ANSI PL/1. [...]  This manual does not specify
all differences between Multics PL/1 and Standard PL/1 [...] see
Appendix A of the PL/1 Language Specification" (another manual which I
do not, of course, have hanging around cluttering up my bookshelves).

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